EVERT VEDUNG
Biographic Data
| ID | 6051343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | EVERT VEDUNG |
| GIVEN NAMES | EVERT |
| FAMILY NAME | VEDUNG |
| SIGNATURE | VEDUNG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0748-6571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social Distancing Policies in the Coronavirus Battle
Social distancing measures have been a key component in government strategies to mitigate COVID-19 globally. Based on official documents, this study aimed to identify, compare and analyse public social distancing policy measures adopted in Denmark and Sweden regarding the coronavirus from 1 March 2020 until 1 October 2020. A key difference was the greater emphasis on laws and executive orders (sticks) in Denmark, which allowed the country to adop…
Generic, Reflexive, Statistical, and Shadow Controls
The generic controls design presupposes partial–coverage programs, that is, permanent interventions adopted by national authorities covering only some part of the nation. In contrast with generic controls, statistical controls can be applied to full–coverage programs as well. The use of statistical controls is posited on the idea that the units of a single time series should be partitioned into subgroups in an attempt to keep potential external c…
Uses and Utility of Evaluation
In those days, the utilization issue-the last problem in the Eight Problems Approach to Public Policy Evaluation-was very simplistically addressed. This is achieved by taking the goals of others-mostly prestated policy and program targets-as organizers and criteria of assessment, and by focusing on the most efficient means to reach the given goals. To meet the methodological requirements of scientific causal analysis, public decision making must …
Evaluation
Public sector evaluation is an addition to a great chain of attempts by princes to use the brainpower of scholars and scientists to further the interests of the state. Evaluation is a key analytical procedure in all disciplined intellectual and practical endeavors. While acknowledging that the process of determining the merit, worth, and value of things permeates every domain of thought and practice, in the work evaluation will be delimited to su…
Evaluation Between Intervention and Feedback
The evaluation process can be regarded as one component of a more general administrative retrospective control system. Evaluation, as part of such a control system, is a systematic reflection on the final stages in the primary public intervention process. According to the general governance model, the public intervention process starts with initiation. Initiation concerns the identification of a problem, the solution of which supposedly demands p…
Merit Criteria and Performance Standards
In descriptive valuing the evaluator chooses the values of others as criteria and standards. The posture is not that these values are paramount, but that they are perceptions of intervention worth that are grist for the mill of decision–making. In prescriptive valuing. the evaluator herself advocates the primacy of particular values, such as, for instance justice, equality and client needs, regardless of whether these values are adopted by any de…
Characterizing the Public Intervention
Public sector evaluations vary widely in their subject matter. Some are extremely broad in their scope, covering for instance an entire policy area; others exceedingly narrow. An option that evaluators have made too little use of is to characterize the intervention in terms of policy instruments. The policy instruments strategy has been identified as a distinctly new approach to the study of public policy—an approach that identifies a new unit of…
Evaluation Purposes
Evaluation as qualified monitoring is usually a routinized, continuous feature of public decision–making systems. As impact assessment, evaluation is frequently commissioned on specific occasions. Whether permanent or periodic, monitoring or impact assessing, however, evaluation is performed for either accountability, intervention improvement or basic knowledge advancement. Accountability belongs to a wider class of phenomena, intimated by dual c…
Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management
All evaluation rests upon the minimal rational supposition that goals, intentions, perceptions, judgments, opinions, schemes, plans, even ideologies-in short everything concerned with the world of human consciousness-play such interesting roles in public sector action, that their functions are worth investigating. In the United States, Wittrock and Lindstrom continue, radical rationalism originated at the Rand Corporation and spread via Robert Mc…
Pre–Evaluation
Pre–evaluation involves an early inexpensive peek at an ongoing intervention to determine whether it is in shape for a full–scale, science like evaluation. One point with evaluability assessment is to resolve whether current programs in fact are susceptible to rigorous evaluation. It is considered to be a preliminary activity to generate an appropriate technical design for an upcoming, fully mature evaluation. Evaluability assessment can be regar…
Impact Assessment as Try out and Social Experimentation
Evaluation is frequently regarded as primarily a research procedure for testing intervention impact. Impact assessment is important, particularly for higher level decision–makers in national bodies. The problem is, of course, that past counterfactual states can never be known with certainty. In public policy and public administration, classic experimentation implies a two–stage approach to decision making. Prior to permanent enactment, the progra…
Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory
The extent to which government interventions contribute to measured results is central to public sector evaluation. If some political ideology dominates the executive and legislative branches of government for a substantial period of time, civil servants will become used to working for certain types of people, who take an interest in certain types of problems. The thesis about the direction of change may be widened to include any new group of pol…
Internal or External Evaluation
In a similar vein, the arranger may be the agency, but the producer could be an outside body, and the intended user the agency. An evaluation is considered external if it is produced by a body external to the agency legally in charge of the evaluand. If some body external to the evaluatee is the producer of an evaluation, the evaluation is external. External evaluations can be arranged and used by insiders, but must per definition be produced by …
The Eight Problems Approach to Evaluation
Evaluation is a technique of managing public organizations in which systematic data gathering and other research like operations per definition play a considerable role. Evaluators may consider some or all of the following eight problems: purpose problem; organization (evaluator) problem; intervention analysis problem; conversion problem; results problem; impact problem; criterion problem and utilization problem. Evaluability assessment is a pree…
Monitoring
Monitoring and impact assessment are two major forms of evaluation. Actually, monitoring may also concern potential outcomes, whether immediate, intermediate, or ultimate. However, if questions are raised concerning the causes of outcomes, then we are doing impact assessment. Much thought on evaluation assumes that only one theory underlies each undertaking. This is usually wrong. Along with initial framers of an intervention, other stakeholders …
Models of Evaluation
There is acrimonious disagreement on the methodological foundation and practical orientation of evaluation research. The classical way of approaching the evaluation problem is goal-attainment evaluation. Since by definitional fiat perverse effects occur and null effects do not occur in the targeted areas, the goal—attainment model with all its attention directed at what happens in these particular fields has no problem with handling them. But thi…
Public Policy and Program Evaluation
A triangulation approach to impact evaluation
This article presents a viable method to overcome the challenge of producing reliable cause–effect findings in impact evaluation. The Measuring Cluster Effects through Triangulation method (MCET) involves methodological triangulation. Three designs − shadow controls, generic controls, and process tracing − are combined to shed light on causality. When these three approaches are triangulated, cause–effect findings will be more reliable. The MCET c…
Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation
Evaluation and network governance are both among the top-10 trendy concepts in public policy. But how are they related? In the present article, we ask how public sector interventions guided by a network governance doctrine are to be evaluated. If evaluation means systematic judgment of organization, content, administration, outputs and effects in public policy, then evaluators need concepts and analytical tools to assess these features and commun…
Four Waves of Evaluation Diffusion
This article investigates the dissemination of evaluation as it appears from a Swedish and to a lesser extent an Atlantic vantage point since 1960. Four waves have deposited sediments, which form present-day evaluative activities. The scientific wave entailed that academics should test, through two-group experimentation, appropriate means to reach externally set, admittedly subjective, goals. Public decision-makers were then supposed to roll out …
Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation
This article introduces a new approach to program theory evaluation called theory-based stakeholder evaluation or the TSE model for short. Most theory-based approaches are program theory driven and some are stakeholder oriented as well. Practically, all of the latter fuse the program perceptions of the various stakeholder groups into one unitary program theory. The TSE model keeps the program theories of the diverse stakeholder groups apart from …
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons
An Irony of History or the Exception as the Rule
Perverse effects and ironies should be at the center of attention in academic public policy analysis. A ‘perverse effect’ is not any inadvertent result produced by a public measure but a result, inside or outside the target area, that is entirely opposite to the result intended. An ‘irony’, as defined here, is different from a perverse effect in that it designates any unintended and unexpected result whose causes are unknown or left without comme…
Award Recipients
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The Study of Contents and Functions of Political Ideas
Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Four Waves of Evaluation Diffusion
This article investigates the dissemination of evaluation as it appears from a Swedish and to a lesser extent an Atlantic vantage point since 1960. Four waves have deposited sediments, which form present-day evaluative activities. The scientific wave entailed that academics should test, through two-group experimentation, appropriate means to reach externally set, admittedly subjective, goals. Public decision-makers were then supposed to roll out …
Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation
This article introduces a new approach to program theory evaluation called theory-based stakeholder evaluation or the TSE model for short. Most theory-based approaches are program theory driven and some are stakeholder oriented as well. Practically, all of the latter fuse the program perceptions of the various stakeholder groups into one unitary program theory. The TSE model keeps the program theories of the diverse stakeholder groups apart from …
Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation
Evaluation and network governance are both among the top-10 trendy concepts in public policy. But how are they related? In the present article, we ask how public sector interventions guided by a network governance doctrine are to be evaluated. If evaluation means systematic judgment of organization, content, administration, outputs and effects in public policy, then evaluators need concepts and analytical tools to assess these features and commun…
A triangulation approach to impact evaluation
This article presents a viable method to overcome the challenge of producing reliable cause–effect findings in impact evaluation. The Measuring Cluster Effects through Triangulation method (MCET) involves methodological triangulation. Three designs − shadow controls, generic controls, and process tracing − are combined to shed light on causality. When these three approaches are triangulated, cause–effect findings will be more reliable. The MCET c…
The Study of Contents and Functions of Political Ideas
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
An Irony of History or the Exception as the Rule
Perverse effects and ironies should be at the center of attention in academic public policy analysis. A ‘perverse effect’ is not any inadvertent result produced by a public measure but a result, inside or outside the target area, that is entirely opposite to the result intended. An ‘irony’, as defined here, is different from a perverse effect in that it designates any unintended and unexpected result whose causes are unknown or left without comme…
Carrots, Sticks and Sermons
Four Waves of Evaluation Diffusion
This article investigates the dissemination of evaluation as it appears from a Swedish and to a lesser extent an Atlantic vantage point since 1960. Four waves have deposited sediments, which form present-day evaluative activities. The scientific wave entailed that academics should test, through two-group experimentation, appropriate means to reach externally set, admittedly subjective, goals. Public decision-makers were then supposed to roll out …
Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation
This article introduces a new approach to program theory evaluation called theory-based stakeholder evaluation or the TSE model for short. Most theory-based approaches are program theory driven and some are stakeholder oriented as well. Practically, all of the latter fuse the program perceptions of the various stakeholder groups into one unitary program theory. The TSE model keeps the program theories of the diverse stakeholder groups apart from …
Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation
Evaluation and network governance are both among the top-10 trendy concepts in public policy. But how are they related? In the present article, we ask how public sector interventions guided by a network governance doctrine are to be evaluated. If evaluation means systematic judgment of organization, content, administration, outputs and effects in public policy, then evaluators need concepts and analytical tools to assess these features and commun…
A triangulation approach to impact evaluation
This article presents a viable method to overcome the challenge of producing reliable cause–effect findings in impact evaluation. The Measuring Cluster Effects through Triangulation method (MCET) involves methodological triangulation. Three designs − shadow controls, generic controls, and process tracing − are combined to shed light on causality. When these three approaches are triangulated, cause–effect findings will be more reliable. The MCET c…
Generic, Reflexive, Statistical, and Shadow Controls
The generic controls design presupposes partial–coverage programs, that is, permanent interventions adopted by national authorities covering only some part of the nation. In contrast with generic controls, statistical controls can be applied to full–coverage programs as well. The use of statistical controls is posited on the idea that the units of a single time series should be partitioned into subgroups in an attempt to keep potential external c…
Uses and Utility of Evaluation
In those days, the utilization issue-the last problem in the Eight Problems Approach to Public Policy Evaluation-was very simplistically addressed. This is achieved by taking the goals of others-mostly prestated policy and program targets-as organizers and criteria of assessment, and by focusing on the most efficient means to reach the given goals. To meet the methodological requirements of scientific causal analysis, public decision making must …
Evaluation
Public sector evaluation is an addition to a great chain of attempts by princes to use the brainpower of scholars and scientists to further the interests of the state. Evaluation is a key analytical procedure in all disciplined intellectual and practical endeavors. While acknowledging that the process of determining the merit, worth, and value of things permeates every domain of thought and practice, in the work evaluation will be delimited to su…
Evaluation Between Intervention and Feedback
The evaluation process can be regarded as one component of a more general administrative retrospective control system. Evaluation, as part of such a control system, is a systematic reflection on the final stages in the primary public intervention process. According to the general governance model, the public intervention process starts with initiation. Initiation concerns the identification of a problem, the solution of which supposedly demands p…
Merit Criteria and Performance Standards
In descriptive valuing the evaluator chooses the values of others as criteria and standards. The posture is not that these values are paramount, but that they are perceptions of intervention worth that are grist for the mill of decision–making. In prescriptive valuing. the evaluator herself advocates the primacy of particular values, such as, for instance justice, equality and client needs, regardless of whether these values are adopted by any de…
Characterizing the Public Intervention
Public sector evaluations vary widely in their subject matter. Some are extremely broad in their scope, covering for instance an entire policy area; others exceedingly narrow. An option that evaluators have made too little use of is to characterize the intervention in terms of policy instruments. The policy instruments strategy has been identified as a distinctly new approach to the study of public policy—an approach that identifies a new unit of…
Evaluation Purposes
Evaluation as qualified monitoring is usually a routinized, continuous feature of public decision–making systems. As impact assessment, evaluation is frequently commissioned on specific occasions. Whether permanent or periodic, monitoring or impact assessing, however, evaluation is performed for either accountability, intervention improvement or basic knowledge advancement. Accountability belongs to a wider class of phenomena, intimated by dual c…
Evaluation, Rationality, and Theories of Public Management
All evaluation rests upon the minimal rational supposition that goals, intentions, perceptions, judgments, opinions, schemes, plans, even ideologies-in short everything concerned with the world of human consciousness-play such interesting roles in public sector action, that their functions are worth investigating. In the United States, Wittrock and Lindstrom continue, radical rationalism originated at the Rand Corporation and spread via Robert Mc…
Pre–Evaluation
Pre–evaluation involves an early inexpensive peek at an ongoing intervention to determine whether it is in shape for a full–scale, science like evaluation. One point with evaluability assessment is to resolve whether current programs in fact are susceptible to rigorous evaluation. It is considered to be a preliminary activity to generate an appropriate technical design for an upcoming, fully mature evaluation. Evaluability assessment can be regar…
Impact Assessment as Try out and Social Experimentation
Evaluation is frequently regarded as primarily a research procedure for testing intervention impact. Impact assessment is important, particularly for higher level decision–makers in national bodies. The problem is, of course, that past counterfactual states can never be known with certainty. In public policy and public administration, classic experimentation implies a two–stage approach to decision making. Prior to permanent enactment, the progra…
Process Evaluation and Implementation Theory
The extent to which government interventions contribute to measured results is central to public sector evaluation. If some political ideology dominates the executive and legislative branches of government for a substantial period of time, civil servants will become used to working for certain types of people, who take an interest in certain types of problems. The thesis about the direction of change may be widened to include any new group of pol…
Internal or External Evaluation
In a similar vein, the arranger may be the agency, but the producer could be an outside body, and the intended user the agency. An evaluation is considered external if it is produced by a body external to the agency legally in charge of the evaluand. If some body external to the evaluatee is the producer of an evaluation, the evaluation is external. External evaluations can be arranged and used by insiders, but must per definition be produced by …
The Eight Problems Approach to Evaluation
Evaluation is a technique of managing public organizations in which systematic data gathering and other research like operations per definition play a considerable role. Evaluators may consider some or all of the following eight problems: purpose problem; organization (evaluator) problem; intervention analysis problem; conversion problem; results problem; impact problem; criterion problem and utilization problem. Evaluability assessment is a pree…
Monitoring
Monitoring and impact assessment are two major forms of evaluation. Actually, monitoring may also concern potential outcomes, whether immediate, intermediate, or ultimate. However, if questions are raised concerning the causes of outcomes, then we are doing impact assessment. Much thought on evaluation assumes that only one theory underlies each undertaking. This is usually wrong. Along with initial framers of an intervention, other stakeholders …
Models of Evaluation
There is acrimonious disagreement on the methodological foundation and practical orientation of evaluation research. The classical way of approaching the evaluation problem is goal-attainment evaluation. Since by definitional fiat perverse effects occur and null effects do not occur in the targeted areas, the goal—attainment model with all its attention directed at what happens in these particular fields has no problem with handling them. But thi…
Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Social Distancing Policies in the Coronavirus Battle
Social distancing measures have been a key component in government strategies to mitigate COVID-19 globally. Based on official documents, this study aimed to identify, compare and analyse public social distancing policy measures adopted in Denmark and Sweden regarding the coronavirus from 1 March 2020 until 1 October 2020. A key difference was the greater emphasis on laws and executive orders (sticks) in Denmark, which allowed the country to adop…
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